China’s Slave Power
Revelations of slave labor, including children abducted from around the country, in a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County, have cast much needed light on an economy and society that is rotten to the core. Indeed, slavery is endemic in the country's brick plants and coalmines, abetteed by the police and state authorities.
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When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijing opera flashed through my mind. In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for mercy to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.